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The EUropeanisation of Research Infrastructure Policy Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Katharina C. Cramer, Nicolas V. Rüffin
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Between Delivery and Luck: Projectification of Academic Careers and Conflicting Notions of Worth at the Postdoc Level Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Jonatan Nästesjö
This paper investigates how early career academics interpret and respond to institutional demands structured by projectification. Developing a ‘frame analytic’ approach, it explores projectification as a process constituted at the level of meaning-making. Building on 35 in-depth interviews with fixed-term scholars in political science and history, the findings show that respondents jointly referred
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Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse: The Case of the EU at-Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion Composite Indicator Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Marianna Zieleńska, Magdalena Wnuk
Drawing on the critical discourse analysis of journals and working papers from 2011-2020 referring to the at-risk of poverty or social exclusion composite indicator (AROPE), we shed light on how benchmarks technicize academic discourse, particularly in its part contributed by economists. First developed to measure progress towards the poverty target set in the EU's Europe 2020 strategy, AROPE has easily
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Strategic Bureaucracy: The Convergence of Bureaucratic and Strategic Management Logics in the Organizational Restructuring of Universities Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Peter Woelert, Bjørn Stensaker
Over recent decades, one can identify two key narratives associated with changes in university organization and governance. The first narrative focuses on the administrative consequences of an off-loading state relinquishing direct control over some of universities’ internal operations while at the same time driving bureaucratization at the institutional level. The second narrative focuses on the emergence
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Environmental Care: How Marine Scientists Relate to Environmental Changes Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Sarah Maria Schönbauer
Marine scientists have reported drastic environmental changes in marine and polar regions as a result of climate change. The changes range from species compositions in coastal regions and the deep-sea floor, the degradation of water and ice quality to the ever-growing plastic pollution affecting marine habitats. Marine scientists study these changes in their fieldwork, and communicate their findings
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The Therapeutic University Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Universities are generally understood as organizations that extend knowledge based on codified bodies of work developed from systematic research and scholarship. This article examines the emergence of an organizational form that increasingly competes in contemporary higher education: the therapeutic university. A recent phenomenon, the therapeutic university is predicated on emotion in which the goal
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Could I Write Like Carol Weiss? Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Øyunn Syrstad Høydal
Academic papers in the social sciences were once more essayistic in their form. The carefree launching of concepts and ideas of academic value were the order of the day, all without the security of the present standardized paper format inspired by the natural sciences. This text draws on the most cited paper by the acclaimed scholar Carol Weiss, as an outset to discussing academic writing; why we write
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Science and Innovation: A Cyclical Approach Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 João Ricardo Faria, Christopher J. Boudreaux, Rajeev K. Goel, Devrim Göktepe-Hultén
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The Persistence of Gender Inequality in e-Science: The Case of eSec Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Öznur Karakaş
E-science, or networked, collaborative and multidisciplinary scientific research on a shared e-infrastructure using computational tools, methods and applications, has also brought about new networked organizational forms in the transition of higher education towards the entrepreneurial academy. While the under-representation of women in ICTs is well-recorded, it is also known that the potential of
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From Effects of Governance to Causes of Epistemic Change Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Jochen Gläser
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What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy? Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Raquel Velho, Michael Gastrow, Caroline Mason, Marina Ulguim, Yoliswa Sikhosana
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Mapping Approaches to ‘Citizen Science’ and ‘Community Science’ and Everything In-between: The Evolution of New Epistemic Territory? Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Nick Hacking, Jamie Lewis, Robert Evans
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An Uneasy Peace: How STEM Progressive, Traditionalist, and Bridging Faculty Understand Campus Conflicts over Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Free Expression Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Steven Brint, Megan Webb, Benjamin Fields
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Making Science Relevant: Comparing Two Science Advisory Organizations Beyond the Linear Knowledge Model Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Göran Sundqvist, Sebastian Linke
This article compares two science advisory organizations: the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), with a special focus on how their respective policy systems absorb the knowledge delivered for use in decision processes. The science-policy processes of these two organizations differ in important respects; ICES delivers
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Political Speech on Campus: Shifting the Emphasis from “if” to “how” Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mario Clemens, Christian Hochmuth
Universities in many liberal democracies, such as the US, the UK, or Germany, grapple with a pivotal question: how much room should be given to controversial utterances? On the one side, there are those who advocate for limiting permissible speech on campus to create a safe environment for a diverse student body and counter the mainstreaming of extremist views, particularly by right-wing populists
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Citation Elites in Polytheistic and Umbrella Disciplines: Patterns of Stratification and Concentration in Danish and British Science Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Alexander Kladakis, Philippe Mongeon, Carter W. Bloch
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Evaluation Practices of Doctoral Examination Committees: Boundary-Work Under Pressure Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Maja Elmgren, Åsa Lindberg-Sand, Anders Sonesson
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Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field: Why a Rapid Reconciliation Between Functional and Evolutionary Biology is Unlikely Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Pierre Benz, Felix Bühlmann
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Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Niels Taubert, Linda Sterzik, Andre Bruns
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The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Lucas Brunet, Ruth Müller
Punctuated by joy, disappointments, and conflicts, research evaluation constitutes an intense, emotional moment in scientific life. Yet reviewers and research institutions often expect evaluations to be conducted objectively and dispassionately. Inspired by the scholarship describing the role of emotions in scientific practices, we argue instead, that reviewers actively define, display and manage their
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New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Lambros Roumbanis
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Academic Inbreeding at Universities in the Czech Republic: Beyond Immobile Inbred Employees? Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Jan Kohoutek, Karel Hanuš, Marián Sekerák
This paper presents the results of qualitative research on academic inbreeding in Czech higher education, the first of its kind. Its focus is on exploring the significance of academic inbreeding, its types, practices, and possible solutions. The research for this paper was done among academic staff at eight institutions of higher education in the Czech Republic. It was conceptually informed by ideas
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Pushing Boundaries: The European Universities Initiative as a Case of Transnational Institution Building Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Marcelo Marques, Lukas Graf
The European Universities Initiative (EUI), created by the European Commission in 2017, is a recent novel phenomenon within the European Union policy toolkit that explicitly targets the development of transnational cooperation in higher education (HE). To date, the EUI counts 44 European university alliances, involving around 340 HE institutions. In this paper, we argue that the EUI can be seen as
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Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Lisa C. Gajary, Shalini Misra, Anand Desai, Dean M. Evasius, Joy Frechtling, David A. Pendlebury, Joshua D. Schnell, Gary Silverstein, John Wells
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The Corona Truth Wars: Epistemic Disputes and Societal Conflicts around a Pandemic—An Introduction to the Special Issue Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Jaron Harambam, Ehler Voss
Ever since the start of the Corona pandemic, different and often conflicting views have emerged about the virus and how to appropriately deal with it. Such epistemic, societal, and economic criticisms, including those about government imposed measures, have often been dismissed as dangerous forms of conspiratorial disinformation that should be (and have been) excluded from the realm of reasonable political
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Conjuration and Conspiracy. The Controversy over the German Covid Policy as a Mediumistic Trial, or: The Medium is the Mess Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Ehler Voss
Based on anthropological fieldwork among protesters against the Covid policy in Germany, this paper elaborates the symmetry of accusations made against each other by proponents and opponents of the state-imposed protection measures against the backdrop of an asymmetrical distribution of power. The social dynamics that emerged during the pandemic are often understood as the result of a knowledge controversy
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Covid Vaccination Disputes in Czechia: Political Myth-Making and Boundary Work Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Radek Chlup
The paper argues that one of the reasons the suppression of scientific dissent during the Covid pandemic has been so severe was because the dominant scientific Covid narrative has been turned into a political myth, i.e. a narrative mobilizing groups in support of key moral values. Taking the example of Covid vaccination, I show the key values with which it became linked in Czechia. Questioning vaccination
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The ‘Zoomification’ of Collaboration: How Timely Technology has Affected Academic Research Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Barry Bozeman, Monica Gaughan
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From Bogus Journals to Predatory Universities: The Evolution of the Russian Academic Sphere Within the Predatory Settings of the State Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Dmitrii Trubnikov, Ekaterina Trubnikova
The transition to the market economy, which began in Russia more than 30 years ago, has dramatically affected the performance of the Russian academic sphere. The market transformation in the country coincided with significant changes in the global academia. Bureaucratization and obsession with performance indicators have been very welcomed by the Russian system and have been incorporated in various
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The Communication Function of Universities: Is There a Place for Science Communication? Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Marta Entradas, Martin W. Bauer, Frank Marcinkowski, Giuseppe Pellegrini
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More Than Euros: Exploring the Construction of Project Grants as Prizes and Consolations Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Peter Edlund
In previous funding literature, ample attention has been devoted to the consequences of competition for project grants. These consequences tend to be fueled by status distinctions among grants, but scant attention has been directed toward how such distinctions are constructed. My aim with this paper is to develop new knowledge about the ways in which scientists ascribe meanings that construct status
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Vaccine Hesitancy and the Concept of Trust: An Analysis Based on the Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Ori Freiman
This paper examines the trust relations involved in Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, focusing on vaccine hesitancy and the concept of ‘trust’. The first section offers a conceptual analysis of ‘trust’. Instead of analyzing trust in the vaccination campaign as a whole, a few objects of trust are identified and examined. In section two, the Israeli vaccination campaign is presented, and the focus
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Public-Private Partnerships and the Landscape of Neglected Tropical Disease Research: The Shifting Logic and Spaces of Knowledge Production Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Hugo Ferpozzi
Until the recent spread of public-private partnerships, pharmaceutical firms had avoided research and development into neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Because these are diseases that affect the poorest populations in developing regions, research and development initiatives have for the most part depended on the resources and expertise drawn from academia, international organizations, and intermittent
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Big Science, Big Trouble? Understanding Conflict in and Around Big Science Projects and Networks Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Anna-Lena Rüland
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“They Don't Understand Us, but We Have to Understand Them”: Interrogating the Making of Interdisciplinary Research in Chilean Climate Science Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Tomas Undurraga, Sasha Mudd, Dusan Cotoras, Gonzalo Aguirre, Tamara Orellana
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Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 David Peterson, Aaron Panofsky
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Steering the Direction of Research through Organizational Identity Formation Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Thomas Franssen, Siri Brorstad Borlaug, Anders Hylmö
Public research organizations respond to external pressures from national research evaluation systems, performance-based funding systems and university rankings by translating them into internal goals, rules and regulations and by developing organizational identities, profiles and missions. Organizational responses have primarily been studied at the central organizational level, and research on the
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A Masked Truth? Public Discussions about Face Masks on a French Health Forum Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Madeleine Akrich, Franck Cochoy
By analyzing the discussion on a health forum, we examine how wearing sanitary masks during the Covid-19 pandemic changed people’s lives and what adjustments were required. During our review, we encountered theories referred to by participants as “conspiracy theories” that led to heated exchanges on the forum. Surprisingly, these interactions promoted, rather than prevented, collective exploration
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Who Am I? The Influence of Knowledge Networks on PhD Students’ Formation of a Researcher Role Identity Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Marie Gruber, Thomas Crispeels, Pablo D’Este
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Bringing Together Species Observations: A Case Story of Sweden’s Biodiversity Informatics Infrastructures Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Jesse D. Peterson, Dick Kasperowski, René van der Wal
Biodiversity informatics produces global biodiversity knowledge through the collection and analysis of biodiversity data using informatics techniques. To do so, biodiversity informatics relies upon data accrual, standardization, transferability, openness, and “invisible” infrastructure. What biodiversity informatics mean to society, however, cannot be adequately understood without recognizing what
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Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Josephine B. Schmitt, Anne Goldmann, Samuel T. Simon, Christoph Bieber
In recent years, we have been observing the phenomenon of an emerging scientific field: digital transformation research (DTR). Due to the diversity and complexity of its object of research digital, transformation is not effectively researchable if confined to the boundaries of individual disciplines. In the light of Scientific/Intellectual Movement theory (Frickel and Gross 2005), we wonder how interdisciplinarity
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“We Share All Data with Each Other”: Data-Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Relationships Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Eva Barlösius
Although the topic of data-sharing has boomed in the past few years, practices of datasharing have attracted only scant attention within working groups and scientific cooperation (peer-to-peer data-sharing). To understand these practices, the author draws on Max Weber’s concept of social relationship, conceptualizing data-sharing as social action that takes place within a social relationship. The empirical
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Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Elina I. Mäkinen, Adi Sapir
Academic entrepreneurship and the commercialization of science have transformed higher education in recent decades. Although there is ample research on the topic, less is known about how individual scientists experience and perceive the transformation. Drawing on a narratological approach to sensemaking, this study examines how entrepreneurial scientists in Finland and Israel make sense of and narrate
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A Data-Political Spectacle: How COVID-19 Became A Source of Societal Division in Denmark Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Sofie á Rogvi, Klaus Hoeyer
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A Tale of Two Academic Communities: Digital Imaginaries of Automatic Screening Tools in Editorial Practice Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Felicitas Hesselmann
Automatic screening tools such as plagiarism scanners play an increasing role in journals’ efforts to detect and prevent violations of research integrity. More than just neutral technological means, these tools constitute normatively charged instruments for governance. Employing the analytical concept of the digital imaginary, this contribution investigates the normative concepts that play a role in
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Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise: Science as Care in Biosecurity for Kauri Trees in Aotearoa/New Zealand Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Marie McEntee, Fabien Medvecky, Sara MacBride-Stewart, Vicki Macknight, Michael Martin
Park rangers hold a unique set of knowledge—of science, of publics, of institutional structures, of place, and of self—that should be recognised as valuable. For too long, models of the knowledge of scientists and publics have set people like rangers in an inbetweener position, seeing them as good at communicating, translating or negotiating from one side to the other, but not as making knowledge that
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The Challenge of Quantification: An Interdisciplinary Reading Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Monica Di Fiore, Marta Kuc-Czarnecka, Samuele Lo Piano, Arnald Puy, Andrea Saltelli
The present work looks at what we call “the multiverse of quantification”, where visible and invisible numbers permeate all aspects and venues of life. We review the contributions of different authors who focus on the roles of quantification in society, with the aim of capturing different and sometimes separate voices. Several scholars, including economists, jurists, philosophers, sociologists, communication
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“Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?” – Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Karen Kastenhofer, Anja Bauer
Technology assessment (TA) is a paradigmatic case for the manifold and, at times, ambiguous processes of identity formation of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary settings. TA combines the natural, technical, and social sciences and follows the multiple missions of scientific analysis, public outreach, and policy advice. However, despite this diversity, it also constitutes a genuine community
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Knowledge Brokering Repertoires: Academic Practices at Science-Policy Interfaces as an Epistemological Bricolage Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Justyna Bandola-Gill
With the rise of research impact as a ‘third’ space (next to research and teaching) within the universities in the United Kingdom and beyond, academics are increasingly expected to not only produce research but also engage in brokering knowledge beyond academia. And yet little is known about the ways in which academics shape their practices in order to respond to these new forms of institutionalised
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Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Yaffa Shir-Raz, Ety Elisha, Brian Martin, Natti Ronel, Josh Guetzkow
The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and scientists who challenge the official position of governmental and intergovernmental health authorities, some supporters of this orthodoxy have moved to censor those who promote dissenting views. The aim of the present study is to explore the experiences
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The Platformization of Science: Towards a Scientific Digital Platform Taxonomy Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Victo José da Silva Neto, Tulio Chiarini
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Boundary Discourse of Crossdisciplinary and Cross-Sector Research: Refiguring the Landscape of Science Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Julie Thompson Klein
This discourse analysis of metaphors of the crossdisciplinary composite of inter- and trans-disciplinary research gleans in sights for science today. The first section establishes a baseline by comparing spatial images to growing use of organic metaphors in an ecology of knowledge production. Following logically from the comparison, the second reflects on metaphors of exchange and transaction in trading
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Conceptions of Professionalism in U.S. Research Universities: Evidence from the gradSERU Survey Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Steven Brint, Ali O. Ilhan
Recent scholars of the professions have argued that a new hybrid form of professionalism is becoming dominant. This new form combines traditional commitments to ethics and community service with new commitments to managerial and entrepreneurial objectives. We analyze the perceptions of 4,300 U.S. graduate students in 21 fields concerning how well their programs have prepared them for leadership and
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Imagining Doctoral Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Driving Technology or Being Driven by Technology Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Jisun Jung
The recent technological revolution, often referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution or the Second Machine Age, has brought significant changes in both the knowledge production process and its outputs. These changes have raised the question of whether a doctoral degree will retain its unique value as a knowledge creator in the future. In addition, the global challenges confronting society, such
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Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Evan Schofer, Julia C. Lerch, John W. Meyer
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Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Liliya Satalkina, Gerald Steiner
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Participatory Governance Practices at the Democracy-Knowledge-Nexus Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Eva Krick
Against the background of an increasing dependency of governance on specialized expertise and growing calls for citizen participation, this study discusses solutions to the tension between knowledge and democracy. It asks: Which institutions and practices add to striking a balance between knowledge-based decision-making and the involvement of the affected? Based on the social studies of science, knowledge
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Academic Inbreeding: Academic Oligarchy, Effects, and Barriers to Change Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Hugo Horta
Most studies of academic inbreeding have focused on assessing its impact on scholarly practices, outputs, and outcomes. Few studies have concentrated on the other possible effects of academic inbreeding. This paper draws on a large number of studies on academic inbreeding to explore how the practice has been conceptualized, how it has emerged, and how it has been rationalized in the creation and development
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Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Lisa Herzog, Robert Lepenies
In this paper, we bring together the literature on citizen science and on deliberative democracy and epistemic injustice. We argue that citizen science can be seen as one element of “deliberative systems,” as described by Mansbridge et al. But in order to fulfil its democratic potential, citizen science needs to be attentive to various forms of exclusion and epistemic injustice, as analyzed by Fricker
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Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding Minerva (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Peter Edlund, Inti Lammi
More than resource allocations, evaluations of funding applications have become central instances for status bestowal in academia. Much attention in past literature has been devoted to grasping the status consequences of prominent funding evaluations. But little attention has been paid to understanding how the status-bestowing momentum of such evaluations is constructed. Throughout this paper, our